SafeWork Awareness – February 2024

SLAM, Hazard Awareness

Purpose
To provide all employees (including contractors) a process designed to assess a task prior to its commencement for the purpose of identifying health, safety and environment hazards
present at the specific time and location, and apply controls associated with the task.

1. Definitions What is our responsibility?

❖ All employees, contractors are required to conduct a SLAM prior to performing their task.
❖ SLAM: Stop, Look, Assess and Manage, standard tool for pre-task risk.
❖ All employees, contractors and visitors are expected to understand and follow the current
❖ HAZARD: Source, situation, or act with a potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill health
SLAM document.
or a combination of these.
❖ Personal handbook must be retained and can be inspected during workplace audits and
2. Importance of SLAM, Hazard Awareness inspections.
❖ SLAM handbook is Glencore standard tool for pre-task risk assessments. It is to be conducted ❖ HSE Department as subject matter experts will provide technical support and expertise to
before the commencement of every routine task, and conducted by all personnel who are ensure that SLAM process is followed.
assigned tasks. ❖ HSE representative verifies the compliance during workplace inspections.
❖ Appropriateness of the Risk Assessments type shall be determined based upon the context
and situation of the activity and/or task. When using the Task/Environment Risk Type selection
matrix, those activities and tasks that routine in nature and occur in a normal environmental
require a Level 1 Pre-Task Risk Assessment or SLAM.
3. SLAM Steps:
❖ STOP and think before acting.
❖ LOOK at the workplace and identify any hazards.
❖ ASSESS the effect of the hazard on people, property and environment.
❖ MANAGE the hazards with effective controls.

Lack of proper hazard awareness & pre-task risk assessment in the field, can increase safety risk!
Mutanda Mining Sarl
 SafeWork Awareness – February 2024
SLAM, Hazard Awareness
Line Supervisor Details (Person who delivered the communication

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Attendees

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Lack of proper hazard awareness & pre-task risk assessment in the field, can increase safety risk!
Mutanda Mining Sarl